Killing Is My Business . . . And Business Is Good!

After guitarist Dave Mustaine was booted out of Metallica in 1983, he immediately returned home to San Francisco and formed Megadeth. The new outfit was instantly compared to Mustaine's former band, and the comparisons haven't subsided since. ...

After guitarist Dave Mustaine was booted out of Metallica in 1983, he immediately returned home to San Francisco and formed Megadeth. The new outfit was instantly compared to Mustaine's former band, and the comparisons haven't subsided since. ...

That's Nas' ex-wife Kelis' wedding dress on the cover: she's a fellow recording artist, the two have a kid together, and she wasn't consulted about the album cover or the album itself. Life Is Good is that kind of album, and for the moment, ...

Florida Georgia Line (Georgia's Tyler Hubbard and Florida's Brian Kelley) broke onto the contemporary country scene in the spring of 2012 with the infectious summer single "Cruise," a song that blended cruising country back roads and farm towns ...

Gene Watson and Rhonda Vincent display considerable chemistry on their duet album, Your Money and My Good Looks. Watson boasts a light ingratiating country tenor, while Vincent is a more strident alto, which tends to reverse the expected sound ...

Saxophonist Boney James plays pure, mostly instrumental "slow jams"; basically "Quiet Storm"-style smooth jazz/R&B. "East Bay" is a case in point--a mellifluous alto saxophone lilts along above a slow, funky groove. The mood is mellow in the ...

Keifer and Shawna Thompson, the husband-and-wife team behind CMA-winning duo Thompson Square, stick with the formula on their Stony Creek-issued sophomore outing, Just Feels Good. Listeners who were turned off by the first single, the surprisingly ...

Gregory Porter's sophomore effort confirms the talent that was so apparent on his debut. He's developed greater technique and subtlety in his impressive singing. The '70s soul is still quite apparent in his voice, with shades of Donny Hathaway ...

Track Listing of songs: Summer of '69; Straight From the Heart; It's Only Love; Can't Stop This Thing We Started; Do I Have To Say the Words?; This Time; Run To You; Heaven; Cuts Like a Knife; ; Somebody; Kids Wanna Rock; Heat of the Night; Please Forgive ...

FEELS SO GOOD is the popular breakthrough album for flugelhorn player and composer Chuck Mangione. His early `70's style was melodic, bright, and engaging, but 1977's FEELS SO GOOD was the disc that brought Mangione to big-selling popular acceptance. ...

Like many of the gospel greats, singer Lee Williams hails from the deepest South there is -- Mississippi. This video showcases the spirit-raising performer live in Memphis, Tennessee. He is ably backed by the Spiritual QC's on some impassioned, ...

It is not as if Graham Parker never found another sympathetic backing band after he parted ways with the Rumour in 1980. Notably, he joined forces with the power pop band the Figgs in the mid-'90s, having them as his supporting group for over ...

Includes 75 Minute DVD Of Acoustic Performance Filmed At The Hard Rock Hotel In Las Vegas. This CD/DVD combination package features the top hits of Godsmack on CD. The DVD features 75 minutes of live acoustic performance filmed at the Hard ...

Other standout tracks include "After You Came," which features tessellated vocal layering and bluesy guitar work; "Emily," a song that John Lodge wrote for his daughter; and the rapturously symphonic "You Can Never Go Home." Rich, complex, powerful, ...

Hip-hop debuts don't come much more "highly anticipated" than Kendrick Lamar's. A series of killer mixtapes displayed his talent for thought-provoking street lyrics delivered with an attention-grabbing flow, and then there was his membership ...

When this was released in 1971, the Faces also released LONG PLAYER (following the dropping of "Small" from the band's name) and frontman Rod Stewart released the seminal EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY. The three-album output was especially remarkable ...

Six of the 12 songs on the First Lady of Gospel's Good God were written by Kurt Carr, while two others were co-written by James Fortune. Despite these collaborations, Good God is very much a Shirley Caesar album, more traditional in approach ...

"Because I Got High" was nominated for the 2002 Grammy Award for Best Rap Solo Performance. Contains the hidden track "Because I Got High," with alternate lyrics, which follows "The American Dream." Straight out of Hattiesburg, Mississippi ...

George Strait co-wrote seven of the eleven songs (sharing credits with Dean Dillon, Bobby Boyd, and his son, Bubba Strait) on Here for a Good Time, his 39th studio album, which was co-produced by Strait and Tony Brown and recorded at Jimmy Buffett's ...

Photographer: Lori Stoll. Track Listing of songs: Good Day; Always, Forever; Just Give Me a Chance; Love Will Find You; ; Temptation; Mission 2 Mars; Bright; Ramon's Revenge; Say Goodnight;